Best Vulnerability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

Ifs Way Real Light Process Support Path Becoming Shame Brave Lists Supposed To Be Vulnerability Daring Daring Greatly Becoming Real

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”

Thinking Heart Emotion Violence Hatred Accidents Naked Cruelty Vulnerability Scare Knives Invites Traffic Vagueness

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”

“Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.”

“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?”

Ifs Knows Hero Mortals Vulnerability Register Daft

Author:David Benioff

“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”

Understanding Knowing Victory Defeat Vulnerability Not Knowing Engaging

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.”

Source: Respect for Acting

“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”

“If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.”

Ifs Long Self Helping Feelings Sin Wonder Lord Despair Adversity Busy Pity Vulnerability Prophet Resolve No Hope Self Pity Futility Entrances Scenery Rearranging

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.”

Real Matter Difficult Son Promise Weakness Roots Tests Stronger Adversity Trials Vulnerability Resolve Sensitivity Diminish Fiery Things That Matter Manageable Makes You Stronger

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.”

Art War Self Enemy Depends Vulnerability Art Of War Invincibility

Author:Sun Tzu

“Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.”

Reason Used Groups Team Members Intention Careful Vulnerable Vulnerability No Reason Teamwork Peers Teammate Protective Team Member

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.”

“First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability.”

Firsts Moments Waiting Enemy Vulnerability Invincible Judo

Author:Sun Tzu

“Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.”

Men Humans Happens Human Beings Destiny Regret Shame Aging Vulnerability Getting Old Getting Older Apprehension

Author:Susan Sontag

“As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.”

Knows Love Form Taken Parenting Patterns Vulnerability Loved Ones Indispensable Our Love Egotism

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.”

Firsts Art Waiting Enemy Battle Experts Vulnerability Martial Arts Invincible

Author:Sun Tzu

“When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.”

Ifs Deny Vulnerability Pet

Book:Recovering: A Journal

Source: Recovering: A Journal

“'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single sentence could explain: it means two people that were brave enough to show their scars, vulnerability, rough edges, happiest thoughts, along with their worst fears, and find a mutual respect, appreciation, and fondness for one another; they achieved a gift that not many people get to experience in their lifetime in its truest form.”

“There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.”

Way Has Beens Sometimes Danger Safe Limits Capacity Machines Bounds Attraction Disaster Flying Flight Vulnerability Aviation Pilots Thrill Historic Dazzle

Author:Alex James

“Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.”

World Spirit Nations Understanding Realizing United Policy Relation Stronger Russia Vulnerability Bombs Lakes United Nations Arrivals

Author:Albert Einstein

“The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.”

States Behinds Wall Lovers Judgment Blame Vulnerable Vulnerability Cynicism Protected Shelter Naive Seeming Interbeing

Book:The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Source: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

“Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone's feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don't. You make promises you don't want to keep, but you keep them because they're right; you help people who can't help you back. [...] Love is when you find something so great, sonecessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.”

People Want Giving Important Helping Feelings Opportunity Goal Love Is Promise Vulnerability Life Has No Meaning Back Love

Author:Dan Wells

“The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.”

Trying Looks Reason Shows Seems Film Doubt Impossible Perfection Ridiculous Pursuit Vulnerability Not Interested Modeling Photo Shoots

Author:Diane Kruger

“Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.”

Men Bigs Running Hollywood Vulnerability

Author:Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

“Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.”

Way Years Kind Real Known Angel Cameras Screens Ass Intimacy Vulnerability Kicks Openness Familiarity Real Power Kick Ass

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.”

Vulnerability Carrie Layers

Author:Teri Hatcher

“Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”

States Groups Racism Productions Vulnerability Exploitation Premature Premature Death

Author:Ruth Wilson

“I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.”

Trying Character Seeing Female Vulnerability Female Characters Drastic

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.”

Knows Way Mean Persons Strong Acting Vulnerability Do You Know Modelling Strong Person

Author:Agyness Deyn

“I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.”

My Friends Inspired Vulnerability

Book:Nan Goldin: couples and loneliness

Source: Nan Goldin: couples and loneliness

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

Life Is Vulnerability Untouchables

Author:Edouard Boubat

“I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.”

Laughter Heartache Vulnerability Desperate Muscles Sweetest Saddest

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

“I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.”

Writing Character Life Is Choices Emotional Reader Higher Drama Consequence Safety Response Vulnerable Vulnerability Stakes Lacking Newness Safety Net Emotional Response

Author:Allan Stratton

“We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.”

Mind Mean Important Home Happens Space Destiny Alive Havens Vulnerable Sensitive Vulnerability Barriers Where You Are

Author:Marina Abramovic

“The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.”

Knows Plans Military Window Rational Administration Vulnerability Assumption Soviet

Author:John F. Kerry

“But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.”

Want Matter Threat Vulnerability Soil Territory

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Love is not love until love's vulnerable.”

Love Love Is Relationship Vulnerable Vulnerability

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.”

Ifs Risk Possibility Trust Betrayal Vulnerability

Book:Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

Source: Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

Enough Light Motivation Darkness Infinite Brave Vulnerable Vulnerability Infinite Power

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.”

Ifs Way Want Real Use Problem Difficult Simple Too Much Oil Best Way Vulnerability Consumption Real Problems High Prices Peak Oil

Author:Richard Heinberg

“Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.”

Needs Wells Character Desire Deals Secret Focus Creation Development Scene Depth Intuition Intellect Genuine Developing Vulnerability Contradiction Frustration Forged

Author:David Corbett

“Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.”

“I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.”

Thinking Fear Ability Too Much Imagine Terrible Vulnerability

Author:William Kittredge

“Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.”

“There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.”

Country Reality Nations Doubt Vulnerability No Doubt Aviation Incidents

Author:James M. Loy

“The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.”

World Belief Terrible Vulnerability Shields Stout

Book:Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.”

“So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.”

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